One more main update that I think will be well used is the NEW Lightboxes
Show off your images by putting them in stylish lightboxes. These floating popups
contain a larger version of an image, form or other item. This puts them up front
on the screen, giving total focus without taking visitors away from your page. Lightboxes
are fully editable too – change the background, border, caption text, buttons, interactivity
and animation styles.
Lightbox is a very versatile option and not only to show off images but also web
pages, smart objects i.e. Forum,Blog, CMS, Rss Feed, Word doc, PDF or any other file
type.
To set up your Lightbox options, these can be found in Site Properties > Lightbox
where you can set up.
- Border type
- Button colour
- Content colour
- Font
- Caption position
- Size
- Caption colour
- Font colour
- Background colour
- Background Opacity
One other option to set up can be found in the Site properties > Graphics . At the
bottom of this window you will find a setting for “Hyperlinked Pictures”. If you
use an image larger than the size you set here, Default is 800 x 600, when using
the hyperlink to “Picture” the image will be kept to the size set in the Site properties.
When setting up your hyperlink to use Lightbox you have the option to hyperlink Text,
Image or object.
As a demonstration the image above is hyperlinked to show a larger image and so is
this text.
The hyperlinked image is hyperlinked to “Picture”, where you use the image that you
have used as the thumbnail to be used in Lightbox. Where as the hyperlinked text
is hyperlinked to “File” and you browse to the file on your hard drive. Another option
is to hyperlink to an “internet page”, in this instance you would have uploaded the
image you want to display in lightbox onto your web host, putting in the Full URL
to your image.
It is best to set the size of the image to import into Webplus the size you require
it to be when viewed in Lightbox.
Another option to view in lightbox is a smart object i.e. Forum, Blog, CMS. This
hyperlink would be to “Smart object” and then after selecting the “none button” on
the right to open your Smart objects to choose from.
After you have selected the object you wish to show in lightbox from the top selection
field of the hyperlink window you need to select “Lightbox” from the “Target window
or Frame field”. Once that has been selected you will see the “Lightbox option” button
below this.
Select the “Lightbox Option” will open this dialogue window where you can, if you
require, give the slideshow a name and a caption to the object when displayed in
Lightbox.
Slideshow Name
If you are going to have a number of hyperlinks to a group of images, wether it
be via the “picture” or “File” option on the same page, you can have these sets to
open in Lightbox as a slideshow. When you open the “Lightbox Options” you need to
put the same name, one word no spaces, for each of the images.
Using Lightbox to view Jalbum slideshow
Select this link HERE to view slideshow in Lightbox. When you try this option to
view Jalbum slideshow you may have to experiment with the skins to find one that
will make a good job of integrating into the Lightbox frame.
Tutorials
